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10/25/2011

Day 20: Bokeh

This prompt was the one that made this whole challenge come to a screeching halt for me. I was cruising along taking pictures most days even if I wasn't posting them but then I hit bokeh. I had to google the word just to figure out what exactly I was supposed to do. I'm pretty sure my point and shoot camera doesn't have the settings to accomplish this kind of photo purposefully and if it does I don't know how to make it do it. I talked to Joe about it and he wasn't sure my camera could do it either. So after hemming and hawing about it for close to a week I decided to cheat and steal a picture that Joe took while we were in Utah. While I didn't actually snap the photo I did edit it, that counts right?

Ok, so I obviously didn't try searching the internet very hard because I just googled "can my point and shoot take a bokeh photo" and found this article http://mansurovs.com/bokeh-on-point-and-shoot-cameras. Then in the last five minutes using stuff around my office I managed to take this: